Cowtown
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- "Cowtown" is generally thought of as a smaller town, another word for a "hicktown"
- It also sometimes refers to towns that participated in the beef industry in the late 1800s and that had many stockyards, slaughterhouses, etc...
The Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English defines a "cowtown" as:
- "a small, isolated, and rather unsophisticated town"
- Cowtown is a nickname for:
- Calgary, Alberta
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Hamilton, New Zealand
- Vacaville, California - Although 'Vacaville' can be translated from Spanish to English as 'cow town', the city actually takes its name from one of its first modern-day inhabitants, Juan Manuel Vaca.
- Cowtown is a former nickname for:
Cowtown may also refer to:
- a museum in Wichita, Kansas
- a song by the band They Might Be Giants
- Cowtown Rodeo in New Jersey
- the Cowtown Coliseum, an arena used for rodeos in Fort Worth.
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